3 ms·

Twitter Shows the Whale after announcement of 3G iPhone.

• noodle 18y ago
  no surprise here
• axod 18y ago
  Please. It's far more efficient to post a news story when Twitter is up.
• TrevorJ 18y ago
  Proposal: "Showing the whale" will now replace the terms "Epic Fail" and "Belly up" in the web 2.0 lexicon and become shorthand for any sort of transitory service failure of a web application. I feel that the slightly rude tone of the term "Showing the whale" appropriately reflects the disrespect a user feels when I service they rely on goes down without explanation.
  • sant0sk1 18y ago
    The folks at Twitter have embraced the term: http://static.twitter.com/images/whale.png http://static.twitter.com/images/whale.png
    • TrevorJ 18y ago
      Yes, I know :-)
  • noonespecial 18y ago
    Showed the whale, Jumped the shark, Epic fail, Nothing but carp. Its all fish to me. :)
    • TrevorJ 18y ago
      Well done good sir.
  • lr 18y ago
    Oh, I had to up-vote this because it is so funny! But I agree with jraines, it should be called the "Fail Whale".
• tom 18y ago
  What? Twitter went down? I'd demand a refund immediately ...
• jraines 18y ago
  I prefer "Twitter is throwing the Fail Whale"